String Quartet (Score &
Parts)
SKU:
HL.48025043
Score
and Parts. Composed
by Ignace Strasfogal.
Boosey & Hawkes Chamber
Music. Classical, Modern,
Neo Classical. Softcover.
76 pages. Bote & Bock
#M202535806. Published by
Bote & Bock
(HL.48025043).
UPC:
196288021728.
Ignac
e Strasfogel (1909 -
1994), a master student
of Franz Schreker and
Leonid Kreutzer, the
youngest student at the
Berlin Hochschule and the
youngest recipient of the
prestigious Mendelssohn
Prize of the Weimar
Republic, made a career
as a conductor at the
Metropolitan Opera after
his emigration in 1934.
His String Quartet No. 1,
probably written in 1927
as the final work of his
studies with Schreker, is
an early work of the
highest perfection. In
the first of the two
movements,
grotesque-capricious
scenariosare revitalized
by contrapuntal artistry.
The second, non less
polypohnic, is a widely
branched scherzo with an
elegiac trio section.
Just as striking is the
harmony: With
individually shaping of
all four parts, all
facets up to polytonality
and complete detachment
from functional tonality
are explored - in a
certain affinity with the
musical language of Alban
Berg, not without
tongue-in-cheek
references to the
neoclassicism of the
1920s. A just as original
as important contribution
to the quartet
repertoireof the early
twentieth century.
France
Leon-Kreutzer
